E.—l

a continuous increase in the number of aided schools, which has risen from 48 in 1883 to 119 in 1886. The local distribution of larger and smaller schools is shown in Table K.

TABLE K.—Number of Schools, December, 1886. (In this enumeration every couple of half-time schools is reckoned as one school, except in the column for number of such schools.)

The increase (102) in the number of teachers during the year was rather less than sufficient to keep pace with the increase in the number of pupils. More than half the increase appears in the numbers of pupil-teachers, and it is very remarkable that the increase (27) in the number of male pupil-teachers is almost equal to that (28) which has taken place in the number of female pupil-teachers, although there are between three and four times as many of the latter as there are of the former. The apparent increase in the number of sewingmistresses (who are not included in the foregoing statement) is probably due to an inaccurate statement of the number for 1885, which was most likely 164 and not 148 as reported. In Table L the positions of the teachers are more clearly distinguished than in tables of the same kind drawn up in former years.

TABLE L.—Number of Teachers, December, 1886.

VII

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Education Districts. Principal. Head of of Sole Teachers. Assistant Pupilteaehers. teachers. M. F. | M, F. M 1 a3 CD -h Total. 5 5 t)0<p-p £ 2 3 VI. j F. All. ||§ © © a & o B ° a* as ag 5s Ph § ©^ © >oH <1 as a ■ w„. a ©-a a £ © a &A o Sgo S«.3 n a © ■r^-^ra * os © a o CO M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. j M, F. M. Auckland ... Taranaki Wanganui Wellington* Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Srey Westlandt North Canterbury} South Canterbury Otago Southland i 13 2 ' i 96 11 22 31 5 6 23 6 8 79 20 76 22 11 3 3 7 2 14 i 'i 14 3 77 10 36 16 11 13 18 8 9 42 14 78 48 31 10 13 11 7 6 30 4 6 6 7 27 10 36 126 1 8 8 19 20 37 10 11 .. | 6 9 50 3 8 3 8 20 111 8 20 52 110 6 | 11 176 J525 18 2 13 14 13 1 6 64 12 43 10 190 17 32 91 42 8 9 12 155 26 107 32 227 25 79 81 52 23 50 17 26 222 53 249 97 358 39 67 146 77 23 94 21 26 297 59 244 64 - 585 64 146 227 129 46 144 38 52 519 117 493 161 16,431 1,814 4,644 6,929 3,941 1,261 3,971 1,136 1,446 15,445 3,543 18,983 5,799 85,343 81,663 28-1 28-3 31-8 30-7 30-6 27-4 27-6 28-4 27-8 29-8 30-3 38-7 36-0 58 16 13 1 15 4 h 2 2 20 4 42 12 17 14 ii ii Totals for 1886 .. Totals for 1885 .. 46 405 47 53 380 168 196 169 721 693 12061 1158 Il515 1461 2721 2619 31-4 31-2 173 148 1 3 Difference j • ■ " I " " I " 27 j j 28 48| 54 102 3,680 0-2 I 25 * Including one vacanc; Ten monitors not reckoned. + Including ei{ dit vacancies.